March 13, 2014, 10:48AM

The 9th annual Cherry Blossom Festival comes to Birmingham Botanical Gardens on Saturday, March 22. The free annual event is presented by the Japan-America Society of Alabama, and this year, the organization has partnered with Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham Public Library and The Gardens to offer a month-long series of educational programming which culminates with the festival in... Full story »

March 15, 2012, 4:01PM

Q: Our Yoshino cherries are in full bloom right now and we really love them. But this year one of them has a large dead branch in it (I assume it's dead as there are no flowers and no small leaf buds, either). The dead branch is about 20% of the whole tree. We have three trees and they... Full story »